Workshops with the Paediatricians

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Workshops with the Paediatricians

The SUZY Project organized a series of workshops with the leading paediatricians of Bangladesh that updated them on the scaling up zinc for the treatment of childhood diarrhoea in Bangladesh.

Professors, associate professors and assistant professors of paediatrics in medical colleges across the country attended the workshop.

The liveliest part of the workshop was the open discussion session where the pediatricians came up with their views and shared their experiences. Overall, they expressed their satisfaction with the scaling up activities.

They suggested to include the efficacy of zinc in childhood diarrhoea in the medical education curriculum.

They also supported the need to emphasize the use of ORS along with zinc whenever promoting Baby Zinc in the mass media. In that way caregivers will not have the misconception that zinc is a substitute for ORS.